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	Realms of Faith: Christian Authors Database Glossary
		Christians have had to decide what to make of the relatively new field of psychology, a scientific approach to describing, explaining, predicting, and affecting human thought and behavior; as well as psychiatry, which uses medicine to improve human thought and behavior.
		Some Christians have sought to promote courtship as an alternative: a couple's activities are focused on the goal of eventual marriage, casual dating may be excluded prior to a certain level of commitment, and physical affections (such as kissing) are forbidden until the couple is engaged.
		Whereas for much of Christian history a professional clergy has done most of the work of the church, many churches today have embraced the concept of every-member ministry, in which most of the work is carried out by members of the congregation (lay members).
	faith.propadeutic.com /authors/g.html (6958 words)

	Christian anarchism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Christian anarchism is the belief that there is only one source of authority to which Christians are ultimately answerable, the authority of God as embodied in the teachings of Jesus.
		Christian anarchists are pacifists and oppose the use of all physical force, both proactive and reactive.
		Christian anarchists like Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy have been members of the Industrial Workers of the World and found common cause with the axiom "an injury to one is an injury to all".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_anarchism (2795 words)

	Paul Tillich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher.
		In his metaphysical approach, Tillich was a staunch existentialist, focusing on the nature of being.
		Nothingness is a major motif of existentialist philosophy and so Tillich included this concept as a means of reifying being itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Tillich (1429 words)

	Existentialism
		Two main schools of Existentialist philosophy may be distinguished; the first is religious as delineated by the father of Existentialism, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855); the second is atheistic, as expounded by its most articulate contemporary spokesman, jean-Paul Sartre.
		The secular existentialists are concerned with the same themes as the religious existentialists, but their pre-suppositions and belief systems preclude any supernatural or any idea of God.
		In existentialist philosophy, (angst is) the dread occasioned by man's realization that his existence is open towards an undetermined future, the emptiness of which must be filled by his freely chosen actions.
	www.greatcom.org /resources/handbook_of_todays_religions/04chap04 (11834 words)

	Christian Existentialism
		But what ties Kierkegaard more closely to the existentialists is that he saw the world as inexplicable as Sartre or Camus did—or as I do.
		When I say that Greek rationalism skewed the western Christian view, I am not saying that Greek concepts introduced an endemic heresy which needs to be purged entirely from your mind.
		Existentialists intuit that the world exceeds the grasp of simple systems imagined by men.
	www.christian-philosopher.com /doc/ChristianExistentialism.html (5351 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Existentialism
		Existentialists consider being thrown into existence as prior to, and the horizon or context of, any other thoughts or ideas that humans have or definitions of themselves that they create.
		The rejection of reason as the source of meaning is a common theme of existentialist thought, as is the focus on the feelings of anxiety and dread that we feel in the face of our own radical freedom and our awareness of death.
		Existentialist novelists were generally seen as a mid-1950s phenomenon that continued until the mid- to late 1970s.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Existentialism (5216 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Existentialism: The Ugly Intruder
		It is frightened existentialist man whistling in the dark when he thinks that possibly the forces modern man has let loose are going to be too much for him to control, and he will blow up the world before he can build the only paradise there is going to be.
		It is the introduction of existentialist terminology and categories of thought, which has enabled the theological revolutionaries to make it seem as if all Catholic doctrine were dissolving in a mist of doubt, and to persuade people that their innovations are "developments of doctrine" instead of the heresies they actually are.
		On their side, the psychiatrists support the existentialists in their preoccupation with "relationships," since a characteristic of many of the psychologically sick with whom they deal is not being able to get on with people.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3749 (5562 words)

	Essays.cc - Existentialism
		This does not mean that existentialists are unsystematic, but rather that they tend to emphasize the richness of human experience rather than construct a tidy framework.
		A second existentialist theme is that of anxiety, or the sense of anguish, a generalized uneasiness, and a fear or dread that is not directed to any specific object.
		Many existentialists believe the greatest victory of the individual is to realize the absurdity of life and to accept it.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/e4/dkt88.shtml (2287 words)

	Biblical Research Institute (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the area of dogma, fundamentalist Christians of all persuasions are confronted with the fact that the Christian existentialists, especially the later ones, were of the modernist schools of thought.
		Christian faith begins as a personal response to a self-communicating God and the knowledge gained through this encounter is such that it can be learned in no other way that is, neither through reason, intuition, feeling, or historical research.
		The Christian student recognizes, of course, that, beautifully as some Christian existentialists have expressed themselves on the importance of self in relation to God, their ideas are not new.
	www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org /documents/existentialism.htm (15894 words)

	Ethics: Pick or Choose? - Probe Ministries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For the existentialists, transcendence was a way to escape what they saw as the meaninglessness of life by establishing aims and goals to make whatever they wanted out of themselves, to create their own reality.
		Simone de Beauvoir, the mistress of Sartre and also an existentialist writer, came the closest of any of these writers to the real truth when she said it was reasonable to sacrifice one innocent man that others may live.
		Probe Ministries is a non-profit ministry whose mission is to assist the church in renewing the minds of believers with a Christian worldview and to equip the church to engage the world for Christ.
	www.probe.org /content/view/635/150 (2734 words)

	THINK - ExChristian.Net - Articles
		As a Christian I believed in GOD, in Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, in angels and demons, in prophesy, in coming judgement, in heaven and hell.
		In my mind, Christianity was so unique and so superior to all other religions that demon possession, or GOD having blinded their eyes, were the only explanations as to why others could not see clearly on the issue.
		Yet how many Christians then act, talk or think in line with the concept that faith is not identical in substance to knowledge.
	exchristian.net /exchristian/2002/10/think.php (5289 words)

	The Basis of Christian Ethics
		Christianity is the only system that gives us a logical and rational reason to maintain a high view of man, and it is the only system that offers us a reasonable way out of our dilemma.
		The Christian existentialists like Kierkegaard and Barth must likewise make their moral and ethical choices in the same manner (and with the same forlornness), for their God is not an objective God who exists, but is one that they validate only through their subjectivity.
		Christian ethics, then, is not to be perceived as a system of ethics that decides right and wrong on the basis of what will do the most good for the greatest number of people, because it is not humanistically based.
	www.craton.net /ethics/part1.htm (16616 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: An Examination of Luther's Theology According to an Existentialist Interpretation - by ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For the existentialist, a person's authenticity is not determined by an external essence.
		In The Freedom of a Christian (1520) Luther wrote, "I believe that it is now become clear that it is not enough or in any sense Christian to preach the works, life, and words of Christ as historical facts, as if the knowledge of these would suffice for the conduct of life.
		Existentialist interpreters of Luther esteem him for his break with the medieval exemplary view of Christ as model.
	www.quodlibet.net /stephens-luther.shtml (3446 words)

	May-28-93 05:33PM _The_700_Club_ Followup-To: sci.skeptic In article <24742@mindlink.bc.ca
		From the perspective of Christian existentialists, the problem is to ease the inevitable conflict between a life which is theoretically centered in and on Christ, and the compromises which result from living in peace in the real world.
		But the other strategy is the active attempt by Christian existentialists to change society itself in ways which will ease the tension between the world of the spirit and the world of the flesh.
		The Dominionists represent the most recent and radical extension of the Christian existentialists' inner conflict in the world at large - they believe that the Law of Moses is applicable, in all particulars, to modern day America.
	www.skepticfiles.org /atheist/club-027.htm (911 words)

	Paul Tillich
		Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 - October 22, 1965) was a German-born American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher.
		Finding himself thus barred from German universities, Tillich accepted an invitation from Reinhold Niebuhr to teach at the Union Theological Seminary in the United States, to which country he emigrated later in that year.
		A 1952 work outlining many of his views on the subject, The Courage to Be, proved popular even outside philosophical and religious circles, earning him considerable acclaim and influence.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paul_tillich.html (367 words)

	131 Christians Everyone Should Know - Christian History
		In celebration of our 25th anniversary, Christian History presents this special issue featuring a large selection of figures from across church history.
		Their lives and writings give us indispensable wisdom for facing some specific challenges of the church today and in the coming decades.
		Come backstage and meet the historical Christians whose experiences and insights stand behind the limelight of today's news stories.
	www.christianitytoday.com /history/features/131christians.html (230 words)

	420 Catholicism and Existentialism
		It was developed and transformed in Germany, by the philosophers Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, and in France, by the French existentialists Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, and by the Christian existentialist, Gabriel Marcel.
		In the first half of the twentieth century, Kierkegaard's Christian existentialism was carried on by Christian existentialists, particularly, the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel.
		Sartre and Kierkegaard put individual, existentialist freedom, absurd choice, and action at the center of human existence, in contrast to Hegel, for whom freedom is produced by by history's necessary, rational development of self-consciousness.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /jhreid/CatholicismExistentialism/420syl(S2004).htm (2484 words)

	Existentialism
		According to them true knowledge is not achieved by the understanding but through experiencing reality; this experience is primarily caused by the dread with which man becomes aware of his finitude and the frailty in that position of being thrust into the world and condemned to death [Heidegger] (Bochenski, European Phi1osophy, pp.
		Gabriel Marcel, a Christian existentialist, shares with the atheist existentialist Sartre the responsibility for the further development in France of that trend in philosophy represented by this anthology.
		The secular existentialists are concerned with the same themes as the religious existentialists, but their presuppositions and belief systems preclude any supernatural or any idea of God.
	www.greatcom.org /resources/secular_religions/ch04 (11356 words)

	"Is Christianity Good for the World?" \| Christianity Today \| A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
		Douglas Wilson is author of Letter from a Christian Citizen, senior fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College, and minister at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho.
		The point of citing Psalm 14:1 was not to infer that I thought you were "dumb." In the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, folly is a moral question, not a matter of intelligence.
		The point is this: if we were in that situation, waiting beside the deathbed of someone who lived a vile life and is gloating about how they "got away with it", all of us, I think, would feel that this person needs to realize how wrong their actions were.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2007/mayweb-only/120-22.0.html (2417 words)

	Authentic Existents - Great Thinkers - Biographical Sketches (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many scholars consider him to be the father of existentialism, a way of thinking that focuses on the importance of the individual, the primacy of freedom, the importance of choice, and the discovery of personal meaning in life.
		Kierkegaard was a Christian existentialist, who thought that a life of faith, in which the individual has a one on one relationship to God, was the hardest and the highest aspiration in life.
		Like the existentialists, he believed that life should be lived intentionally and with deliberation, that is, by thinking about the meaning of life and existence.
	www.greatthinkergifts.com /bios.htm (780 words)

	What Is A So-Called Biblical Worldview? And Why I Am A Christian Existentialist in the Tradition of Kierkegaard @ ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It seems to me to be a basic axiom of a Christian view of epistemology that God is capable of creating rational minds to which he can communicate at least some of that truth in a manner that preserves it truth value.
		Some post-modernist influenced Christians, reacting to the way Barna defined it, have displayed their discomfort with what appears to be an over emphasis on the belief in certain correct propositions.
		Christianity is about redemption in our relationship to God and to other people.
	www.e-church.com /Blog-detail.asp?EntryID=454&BloggerI (3579 words)

	Christian Forums - View topic - Only Human? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As the Christian is aware of, we have the aid of the holy spirit and that, through the holy spirit, Christ lives in us.
		Most existentialists who believe in faith are also readers of Kierkegaard: an early existentialist from as early as the early 19th century who held that faith backed existentialism and vice versa.
		The fundamental issue in Christianity is that God is absolute (holy, pure) and we are subjective (unholy, corrupted.) Ubermensch says that I have the power, a Christian says God has the power.
	www.churchquest.com /forum/post-402.html (4627 words)

	Re: Gould as Christian Existentialist
		Between music as art and commerce, Gould's stance was always clearly stated, but the landscape of his own life showed that those were poles never entirely separable, not alternate life choices.
		This goes far, I think, toward understanding the "revulsion" and what was undeniably an existentialist response to it.
		> I have the definite impression that Glenn Gould was a Christian > existentialist in the Soren Kierkegaardian mold.
	www.glenngould.org /f_minor/msg06457.html (825 words)

	Ethics for AS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Century ideas that influenced these thinkers (such as developments in Biblical Criticism, and the writings of the Christian Existentialist Soren Kierkegaard) were largely unmentioned by clergy and unknown by their congregations in churches which still used the 1611 version of the Bible and the 1662 Prayer-book.
		It is easy to see that the Christian origin of this rejection of preconceived moral rules is the clash reported in the gospels between Christ and the Pharisees, when Christ objected to the Pharisees' excessive legalism, their obsession with the trivia of law, which blinded them to more pressing concerns of social justice.
		The importance of this is that love is a response to a real, unique individual existing at a particular point in human history, in space and time, and as every individual is unique no corpus of moral laws can specify exactly what that individual needs in their situation.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /elandtim/college/rsAS2000sitethix.htm (1276 words)

	Religion Reading List
		Defines the Christian ideal largely fallen short of in the 20th century.
		Existentialist Christian definition of faith and its varieties.
		Gritsch surveys Luther with eyes open to his positive and negative contributions to Christian life and thought, from his celebrated 95 theses to his anti-Semitism, from his doctrine of "salvation by Grace through Faith," and his assertion of the primacy of Scripture to his creation of a schism that has lasted more than five centuries.
	www.dogchurch.org /narthex/rrl.html (2484 words)

	God, Zen and the Intuition of Being
		An encounter between Zen, the metaphysics of St. Thomas, and the mysticism of John of the Cross is inevitable.
		The ground-work which the author has painstakingly done in laying bare the roots of both Christian and Zen metaphysics contribute greatly to the understanding of the meditation process itself.
		It is certainly made abundantly clear that the Christian cannot ignore what is buried deep in the Christian consciousness: belief in a personal God.
	www.innerexplorations.com /catew/3.htm (523 words)

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		He's not an existentialist, if you mean a disciple of Sartre: he couldn't have been; but he was even more for many other reasons.
		Sartre is, of course, the founder of French existentialist theory between the wars...
		Paradoxically---for Descartes was a leader of Renaissance rationalism---Sartre is an Existentialist who operates in the Cartesian tradition; at the beginning of any investigation he poses the cogito, the self-that-is. From this duality, in most endless brilliant progressions, he moves through other dualities: knowing-doing, being-becoming, nature-freedom, etc. Only the professional philosopher can follow all the way.
	website.lineone.net /~davidonut/outsider-stranger.doc (20484 words)

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